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Nebakenezzer posted:Ball turrets are crazy: German pilots also attacked bombers head-on, since it was the least-defended area. Lots of pilot/co-pilot exposure that way. It's why the B-17G got the chin turret.
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Apr 15, 2010 03:07
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I could share a story about stopping ground traffic at PDX with a burnt bagel...
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May 7, 2010 01:09
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Revolvyerom posted:That's kind of a post that takes up space an otherwise interesting story about just such that event could be in.  I used to do GA line service at Portland International. At the time of this particular story, I was working the graveyard shift, 9pm-7am. Once a month the Line Service Dept had a monthly meeting that all personnel were required to attend, even if it meant getting up in the middle of my night. I managed to drag myself down to the airport a half hour before the meeting and started BSing with the day shift line guys, wishing the whole time I wasn't on that god-forsaken graveyard shift. One of the perks of line service is leftover catering. Rich people usually bring an excess of perfectly good, gourmet food, and I noticed there were some tasty morsels laying out and up for grabs. So I grabbed a bagel, walked back into the kitchen that was attached to our conference room, threw the bagel into the toaster, and wandered back to the line service room overlooking the ramp. Well, maybe two minutes later the fire alarms in our building went off. Strobes, horns, the works. Nobody panicked or anything, but goddamn if it wasn't obnoxiously, painfully loud, especially when William Herbert Blueblood, III, Esq. is in the lounge trying to read the Wall Street Journal. The fire alarm system in our building wasn't just a local alarm: since our system was externally monitored, it automatically sent out an alert to the nearest fire department. The nearest fire department, at an airport, is of course the airport's fire department, which was on the other side of the airport. And since the taxiways were the most direct way to our ramp and building, the crash trucks rolled, and ground control called a halt to ground traffic along the path of the crash trucks. I knew what had caused the alarm; our toaster was known to do bagels extra crispy, but hadn't set the alarm off before, and I also blame my very fatigued state of mind. I sneaked back to the kitchen and retrieved my bagel, which at this point was more the color and texture of a hockey puck. So within 4-5 minutes of me putting my bagel in the toaster, our ramp is swarming with crash trucks, driving around assessing the situation. A smaller firetruck pulls up right in front of our building and the battalion chief or commander or whoever is usually the head honcho came walking swiftly into our lobby, turnout gear and all. I sheepishly presented him the lump of charcoal in my hand. He gave me a look that seemed like a 50/50 mix of disappointment and annoyance, checked the rest of the building to be absolutely sure, and radioed the good (bad?) news to the crash crews waiting outside. My manager apologized profusely, gave me a ration of poo poo, and promptly threw the toaster in the dumpster. Oh, and to add insult to injury, one of the Oshkoshes they rolled out in blew a head gasket or something similarly catastrophic. It began belching steam out of the exhaust stack while pissing antifreeze all over our ramp. I assuaged my guilt over that by deciding it was better to have the truck fail over a burnt bagel rather than an actual plane crash.
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May 8, 2010 00:29
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grover posted:Using absolute dollars, or even inflation-adjusted dollars can be misleading; % of GDP is much more meaningful as it reflects that our nation is far wealthier now than in years past. By % GDP, Obama is spending more on defense than Clinton, yet less than virtually any other time since before the Korean war, and doing so while actively fighting two wars. And the fact that it's lower by GDP makes exactly what difference? Do you think military spending should always be proportional to GDP?
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Jun 21, 2010 16:10
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ApathyGifted posted:It's just a better gauge on how much we're spending than absolute dollars is all. If I told you that I paid 7,000 a month in rent, you'd think I don't know poo poo about budgeting my money. But if I then turned around and said I make 3 million a year, you might go so far as to think I'm a miser when I could afford a much better apartment than that. I just found it intellectually dishonest that Grover seemed to be asserting that the military hasn't been getting loved lately when according to his own graph we're spending more than ever since WW2, independent of GDP. Anyway, not going to derail this thread. Somebody do a writeup about the NK-12.
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Jun 22, 2010 15:54
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jediguy posted:Yak-24 Assault Helicopter (I think...?) awesome pics and thanks a ton but a dude posting in this thread not knowing the Mil Mi-24 Hind, a shameful dude
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Oct 4, 2010 18:32
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Advent Horizon posted:I've been really out of it for a while, so I'll post this from my wedding: I have fueled that exact plane many, many times. Edit: Nice xtratuffs. SyHopeful fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Jan 5, 2011 |
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Jan 5, 2011 18:24
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Here's Embraer's 190 testbed in Portland when I was doing line service; this was in either 05 or 06. The inside was, of course, filled with all kinds of testing apparatus and they had a pretty massive water ballast system that we had to fill up every day. The crew were really nice though, and introduced me to guava juice. 
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Mar 2, 2011 21:08
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Oh hell, I'll share a few pics from my ramping days.       The above King Air picture is a single exposure with no digital manipulation beyond some sharpening and turning up the saturation a few points.   
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Mar 2, 2011 21:21
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BonzoESC posted:I just hate 'em because I can't stand up straight in the middle of the aisle. Compare and contrast with the MD-11 I rode on Monday, where I could just barely touch the ceiling in the aisle. It's an interesting issue, since the Challenger and Global Express bizjets have a roomy cross-section, why couldn't those be incorporated into a regional jet?
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Apr 19, 2011 21:47
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MrChips posted:It does - but it runs deeper than just aircrews; put simply, there is redundancy in everything in a merger. Until you figure out what stays and what goes, it is easier to operate as two separate operations under one name. Integrating two airlines into one is a very complicated and often highly contentious procedure that can take years to accomplish. Back when Canadian Airlines and Air Canada merged, I remember hearing all kinds of ugly stories; aircrews getting into shouting matches in public, jumpseaters getting kicked off flights for no reason (other than you worked for the other guy)...it goes on and on. You're probably right. Been a long time since I've been on either a Challenger or a GLEX. And when I say Challenger I meant the old guppy-looking ones, not the 300s. Or is it just an illusion that the old Challengers look and feel bigger? (not being a smartass)
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Apr 20, 2011 04:09
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MrChips posted:The entire family, from the original Challenger 600 to the CRJ-1000, share the same fuselage cross-section. Some of it is due to what I mentioned earlier, but it also occurred to me that not only are there none of the dreaded CRJ window seats (where banana-shaped people have their only advantage over the rest of us) in the business jets, but also because there are typically no overhead bins either, which frees up a ton of headroom. so....was it really all in my head that the 300s looked significantly narrower than the 600s?
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Apr 20, 2011 23:44
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Understeer posted:Sure you weren't thinking of the ERJ-135/145? PDX never got ERJs at all when I was working line service, so no. Except for Embraer's E190 testbed, but that's obviously not what I'm talking about. Edit: lots of Brasilias but nothing else. SyHopeful fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Apr 21, 2011 |
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Apr 21, 2011 02:50
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CommieGIR posted:So, basically the cause of Flight 447s crash was determined to be frozen pitot static tubes.... isn't that what was speculated as the cause years ago? Supercooled water and all that?
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May 28, 2011 05:47
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HEY GUYS YOU HEAR A B-17 CRASHED?! Boomerjinks, I bet you'll get more feedback here. One of my best friends is now training on one of the last original Super DC-3s in the world, up in Anchorage. If that isn't enough to make you jealous, he sent me this pic today, taken from the cockpit of the Super:  Shot of the DC-3:  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jun 18, 2011 05:24
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MrChips posted:That's an ex-Kenn Borek Super; even before I saw the old titles and Canadian registration under the paint, the day-glo orange topside with the black cheat line gave it away. I've probably seen this aircraft a handful of times back when it flew for KBA until 2006...their main base is across street from us. Be happy to know it is apparently very well loved, then. The C-46 pic was from today, so as of this post it's been flown within the last 4 hours.
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Jun 18, 2011 06:32
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When I was working line service here at PDX, a USMC F/A-18 in Flanker paint arrived. I was pretty surprised when a Canadian Forces pilot got out. Apparently the USMC loans out their fighters.
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Jun 18, 2011 07:01
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iyaayas01 posted:Probably not a loaner...the various services have exchange programs, especially among the flying types (pilots, CSOs, NFOs, etc). There's currently a RAAF Squadron Leader up here flying the F-22 with one of the USAF squadrons, for example. dammit dude fix your sarcasm detector, it was obviously an exchange program.
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Jun 18, 2011 07:08
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The world's only airborne fish strike?
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Jul 11, 2011 20:12
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Cygni posted:Can we not turn this thread into a F-35 D&D, like every other loving F-35 conversation on the internet? I really don't give a poo poo what your personal opinion of the planes financial situation is. I really don't. Seriously.  PP-XMA, Embraer's E190 testbed visiting Portland back in 2005. It had a water ballast system we had to fill up every day for them, as well as fuel the plane. The Brazilians were really cool though, they'd always tip me in cans of guava juice. And I think the flight crew were the only ones who didn't dress exclusively in soccer jerseys. E: wtf, both imgur and Windows Media viewer or whatever won't let me rotate it properly 
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Nov 22, 2011 18:22
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BonzoESC posted:The CRJ is proof that Canadians shouldn't be allowed to make airplanes, sorry. Don't you dare blaspheme your DHC-2/3 heritage
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Nov 23, 2011 18:50
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slidebite posted:Yeah, that's my point. I know the rotors generate the static, but since it is already connected to the cable from the get go, it shouldn't be an issue between the two. Reminds me of when I used to hot-fuel Astars 
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Nov 26, 2011 20:27
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D C posted:We hot fuel all the time, hell, we do everything hot. Absolutely, and I was never worried about anything other than fueling quickly. Had a good routine down. I also hot fueled a DHC-2 Beaver while it was lightly rolling on a float pond. Anybody that's fueled a Beaver knows how much of a pain in the rear end they are. SyHopeful fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Nov 27, 2011 |
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Nov 27, 2011 18:02
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D C posted:
Hah! Here's my old Grand National with that very DC-3.....in Juneau, AK: 
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Dec 23, 2011 19:31
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Phy posted:What's the story on Chuck Yeager? Alpha male cockiness. Not that Yeager didn't have reasons to be so, but apparently he really looked down upon any pilots that weren't fighter jocks.
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Jan 17, 2012 01:19
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7of7 posted:I'm hoping someone with a better knowledge of airliners can answer a question about crosswind landings. It seems in videos like this that the wheel bogies on many airliners are somehow kept parallel to the runway during crosswind landings. However, I've done a bit of googling, and read a few airliners.net threads, and found that only the B-52 was actually designed to align the wheel bogies with the runway during such a landing. It seems pretty clear in the video above around 0:24(also shown below) that the A-340's wheels are aligned with the runway. C-5 Galaxies also had the capability, but iirc it was disabled. Cygni posted:It's A340's that have that center wheel setup: Not the only ones... 
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Feb 12, 2012 18:37
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So does the USAF have a bunch of mothballed J58s sitting in some dusty warehouse somewhere?
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Mar 10, 2012 23:25
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Boat posted:This was posted in the Amusing and Provocative Political Pictures thread in D&D and I figured it belonged here. It kinda existed.
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Mar 22, 2012 21:05
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Tenchrono posted:How exactly do winglets increase lift? i had a good 3 hours of staring at one but I couldnt figure it out.(The MD-88 I was on before that had none.) If you've ever watched a plane without winglets fly through clouds, you might've noticed that the air at the wingtips swirls up and over on top of the wing, decreasing lift. Winglets essential stop that air swirl. Or at least that's how it was explained to me. E: Beaten so utterly
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May 9, 2012 05:12
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CommieGIR posted:That was a LOT of episodes of CSI for me. I did computer forensics for a few years....yeah I was foaming in rage sometimes watching CSI, I just couldn't watch it anymore. ZOOM, ENHANCE! Protip: don't ever watch Bones.
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May 15, 2012 05:08
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HeyEng posted:On a civilian airliner note, I have a healthy dislike flying on any of the prior NG model 737's. Can't tell you why, but they freak me the hell out. Alaska Airlines operates a 737-400 Combi which I've flown on a few times. That one is highly unsettling to me. You big baby, you obviously have never done the Seattle-Ketchikan-Sitka-Juneau or Juneau-Yakutat-Cordova-Anchorage milk runs in a -200 Combi.
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May 24, 2012 19:13
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I like Classics because you can see the clamshell thrust reversers deploy on the aft of the JTD-8s :metal: I never actually hated the pre-NG 737s, but again I grew up flying out of JNU on Alaska's 727s and 737s, back when I could be comfortable in coach and before these draconian security measures sucked the joy from flying. I still remember the whine of those 727s taxiing at the airport, could hear them from my house in the Valley.
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May 24, 2012 22:50
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Late to the trijet porn, but at least I took all these:   
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May 26, 2012 21:26
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Ola posted:The upside down bit not only plausible, but has been done. Unfortunately, it was a brave but ultimately unsuccessful attempt. True story, I was sitting in the SeaTac Alaska Airlines boardroom waiting on my flight back to Juneau when Flight 261 went down. Lots of horrified looks when that appeared on all the TVs, and it was a...somewhat apprehensive flight back to Juneau. I took comfort that only 737s did the SEA-JNU run.
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Jun 9, 2012 17:25
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Are...are those contra-rotating props?
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Jun 16, 2012 18:38
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CommieGIR posted:It works like a charm for the Tu-95 He just said they aren't contra-rotating, unlike the Tu-95. So why not just use a 4-blade prop? I'm utterly confused.
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Jun 18, 2012 04:08
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Linedance posted:Haha, yeah as if the French ROA EWR ARAACCS WFT Rafale could ever compete with a USAF FUAF full on loaded with AXRAM FUNDIP in an ALSF EXNOR exercise in AK of all places! LOL that's like saying a F17 could BBW a DG-444 in a dogfight with an Unintelligible Military Acronym! Man I'm craving some AXRAM FUNDIP right now
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Jul 31, 2012 14:51
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ManifunkDestiny posted:I am heading to the Oregon coast this week for a family reunion. I would like to sneak away and take in one of the air museums out there but I can't decide between the Evergreen Aviation museum or the Tillamook Air Museum. Anyone ever been to either of these? Any preferences or recommendations one way or the other? I've been to both, and they are quite different. None of the a/c at the Tillamook museum are cordoned off; you can walk right up to them, open hatches and stuff, pretty rad. Also their aircraft are pretty close to airworthy, and you'll see most of them have oil drip pans under the engines. The downsides are 1) It's kinda dark, and 2) there isn't much presentation, e.g. few informational placards, etc. Last time I was out there, you could go on board the mini Guppy, too. Evergreen is much more sorted out, but everything is on a NO TOUCHING basis. Apparently they have a 747 water slide there now?? Been a while since I've been there. Personally, I like Tillamook more because it feels more real, but if you're a plane nerd both places have a lot to offer. And with an early enough start you could do both places in a day.
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I'm no pilot, but it seems to me that after the 2nd touch-and-go that I'd be able to tell I was going nowhere fast and put it down safely, unpack two dudes, then fly two trips.
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